What they say: "The [opponent class] is out of touch."
What it means: "Congratulations on successfully creating a class divide between your lessers and yourself."
The more 'out of touch' a leader caste is, the more likely they are to maintain a class divide and thus their grip on power.
It's only when they fearfully feel the need to cater to prole whining that the proles sense weakness and attack.
Though also that's not what's going on in America. The psycho lords have always been very out of touch. The difference is that they're letting their gofers put on airs now. Not putting on airs, as a manservant to power, takes sophistication. Never mind good help, you can't even find mediocre help these days.
Come to think some of the kingdoms making up the GAE are probably losing their kings too. America is running so short of lordship that the submunitions are getting high on their own supply, either because proper psycho lords can't keep their jurisdictions intact and there are dumbass usurpers, or because psycho lords are disappearing with no successors.
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America's psycho lords are fighting amongst themselves and encroaching on each others' kingdoms, with managing their servants and the public being relegated to a secondary or even tertiary concern. Hence the extreme degeneracy and senility of public life (which was never sober to begin with).
The problem isn't that the elite look down their noses on the commoners, the problem is that this looking down is illegitimate. Our modern elite are exacly the same in their desires and drives as the commoners -- the only thing they have more is cunning.
Rich women openly despising poor women is more disagreebale than rich men despising poor men for the same reason: we know that there is lesser difference between the two set of women than the two sets of men.
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Schopenhauer:
Further, while the man as a rule speaks with a certain consideration and humanity, even to one who is far beneath him, it is unbearable to see how proudly and brutally, for the most part, an aristocratic woman conducts herself toward one in a lower position, even though not in her service, when she speaks to her. It may arise from the fact that all distinction of rank is much more precarious with them than with us, and can be altered and abolished much more rapidly; since while with us a hundred things come into the scale, with them only one decides, to wit, which man they have pleased; as also from the fact that they, because of the onesidedness of their calling, stand much nearer to one another than men do, and for the same reason seek to exaggerate class distinctions.
http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/woman.pdf
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